Translingual

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Symbol

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CU

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Cuba.
    Synonym: CUB (alpha-3)

English

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Noun

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CU (plural CUs)

  1. Initialism of credit union.
  2. Initialism of control unit.
  3. (film) Initialism of close-up.

Proper noun

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CU

  1. Christian Union (bodies of Christian students in UK schools, colleges and universities)
  2. Chittagong University in Bangladesh
  3. Chulalongkorn University in Thailand

Adjective

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CU (not comparable)

  1. cubic in a variety of English customary units (examples: cubic inch, cubic foot).

Phrase

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CU

  1. (philately) in stamp descriptions, commercially used.
  2. (Internet slang) phonetic abbreviation of see you.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From ChristenUnie.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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CU f

  1. (rare) ChristianUnion, a conservative Christian social political party in the Netherlands

Usage notes

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This abbreviation mainly occurs as a label in graphs and is seldom used in running text.